brain waves are analog... ELF waves, I think. (that was a pun)
electromagnetic waves of Extra Low Frequency... the low end of your radio dial is at 5400 cycles per second, so our brains must be putting along at something like 3000 hertz? (Wow was that ever high!...
Brainwave speed is measured in Hertz (cycles per second) and they are divided into bands delineating slow, moderate, and fast waves.
INFRA-LOW (<.5HZ)
Infra-Low brainwaves (also known as Slow Cortical Potentials), are thought to be the basic cortical rythms that underlie our higher brain functions. Very little is known about infra-low brainwaves. Their slow nature make them difficult to detect and accurately measure, so few studies have been done. They appear to take a major role in brain timing and network function.
DELTA WAVES (.5 TO 3 HZ)
Delta brainwaves are slow, loud brainwaves (low frequency and deeply penetrating, like a drum beat). They are generated in deepest meditation and dreamless sleep. Delta waves suspend external awareness and are the source of empathy. Healing and regeneration are stimulated in this state, and that is why deep restorative sleep is so essential to the healing process.
THETA WAVES (3 TO 8 HZ)
Theta brainwaves occur most often in sleep but are also dominant in deep meditation. It acts as our gateway to learning and memory. In theta, our senses are withdrawn from the external world and focused on signals originating from within. It is that twilight state which we normally only experience fleetingly as we wake or drift off to sleep. In theta we are in a dream; vivid imagery, intuition and information beyond our normal conscious awareness. It’s where we hold our ‘stuff’, our fears, troubled history, and nightmares.
ALPHA WAVES (8 TO 12 HZ)
Alpha brainwaves are dominant during quietly flowing thoughts, and in some meditative states. Alpha is ‘the power of now’, being here, in the present. Alpha is the resting state for the brain. Alpha waves aid overall mental coordination, calmness, alertness, mind/body integration and learning.
BETA WAVES (12 TO 38 HZ)
Beta brainwaves dominate our normal waking state of consciousness when attention is directed towards cognitive tasks and the outside world. Beta is a ‘fast’ activity, present when we are alert, attentive, engaged in problem solving, judgment, decision making, and engaged in focused mental activity.
Beta brainwaves are further divided into three bands; Lo-Beta (Beta1, 12-15Hz) can be thought of as a 'fast idle, or musing. Beta (Beta2, 15-22Hz) is high engagement or actively figuring something out. Hi-Beta (Beta3, 22-38Hz) is highly complex thought, integrating new experiences, high anxiety, or excitement. Continual high frequency processing is not a very efficient way to run the brain, as it takes a tremendous amount of energy.
GAMMA WAVES (38 TO 42 HZ)
Gamma brainwaves are the fastest of brain waves (high frequency, like a flute), and relate to simultaneous processing of information from different brain areas. It passes information rapidly, and as the most subtle of the brainwave frequencies, the mind has to be quiet to access it. Gamma was dismissed as 'spare brain noise' until researchers discovered it was highly active when in states of universal love, altruism, and the ‘higher virtues’. Gamma is also above the frequency of neuronal firing, so how it is generated remains a mystery. It is speculated that Gamma rhythms modulate perception and consciousness, and that a greater presence of Gamma relates to expanded consciousness and
spiritual emergence.
here's the Link to that article:
WHAT ARE BRAINWAVES? )
We live in the Information Age, we all stumbled online in the mid 1990's and we stumbled into each other in the early 2000's. We discovered that our analog brains were mostly at war with each other, and that everyone was competing to be the best... whatever that means. We got a glimpse of economics and the way our globalist masters handle us, and we fought against that too. Luckily, just as it looked like all hell would break out, we became obsessed with cats, then all animals, and then everyone split up and ran after their own passions.
Analog signal is a continuous signal, while digital is like morse code, digital isn't really a signal, it is the art of starting and stopping over and over and over and over, every start or stop is a bit, 8 bits compose a byte, which represents a character, characters are the same as letters in our alphabet... digital characters produce code which is then assembled into a language.
Digital mind set has no emotion, it is all information, and no heart. It is real hard to put your heart into cyber space, that's what Jen and I were trying to do in this thread... show a little heart and soul... lay down some analog thoughts in a digital format... and drink more coffee. I need to make another pot, right now.